A survey on Applying Ontological Engineering Approach for Hepatobiliary System Diseases

Abstract

Medical Ontologies play a central role in integrating heterogeneous databases of various model organisms. Hepatobiliary system is very important to human vital processes. It has an ability to regulate the other systems. Furthermore, it may be affected by many pathologic conditions, which affect other organs negatively. This paper investigates the current studies on Ontological engineering approach and Ontology techniques for Hepatobiliary System Diseases. We present conceptual view for the Hepatobiliary system and its infected diseases. Besides, we propose a new classification schema for the research efforts investigated so far. We classified the research efforts investigated so far based on the Hepatobiliary system organs: Liver, Gallbladder, Bile duct and Pancreas. Besides, we discuss the current research gaps found in this research area.

Ontology-Based Approach for Liver Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

“…Some of these works have proposed prototypes such as OntoVIP [39], Reportviewer [26], and VHOSWS [40]. On the other hand, other works focus on the stadification process via staging systems such as BCLC [25] and TNM [28,31,36]. The treatment process is treated in [28,31,36].…”

“…On the other hand, other works focus on the stadification process via staging systems such as BCLC [25] and TNM [28,31,36]. The treatment process is treated in [28,31,36]. Furthermore, to validate and improve the efficiency of these works, several techniques were applied such as testing with real datasets tacked mainly from clinical sources, querying and manipulating the ontology through semantic search queries (e.g., SPARQL rules, SWRL rules) [26,31,39] while other works try to apply standard measurements in the validation step such as recall and precision accuracies [25].…”

“…This system is based on three basic parts: (i) the diagnostic part which determines the type of cancer, (ii) the staging part using TNM system, and (iii) the treatment recommendation part which subsequently renders the suitable treatment. In AL-Marzoqi et al [36], the authors investigate the current studies on ontological approaches for hepatobiliary system diseases. This approach concentrates on system organs such as liver, gallbladder, bile duct, and pancreas.…”

Ontologies for Liver Diseases Representation: A Systematic Literature Review

“…The development of LIO starts by (i) extracting ontological terms from related works dealing with the same problem gender, (ii) giving more expressiveness to the extracted words and (iii) combining the selected terms with extracted terms to form detailed descriptions. Additionally, [20] presented a classification system for liver diseases based on the previous developed ontologies like VHOSWS [21] and LIO [23]. This work described a global view of the hepatobiliary system including liver organ.…”